What is an Institutional Repository?

Abstract

The academic works of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) are currently stored in digital repositories that are available to the public in websites. With the purpose of visualizing the institutional repositories, this article presents the ways to access to theses, books, journal articles, and other materials elaborated by professors, researchers, and alumni who graduated from the UAA. Moreover, this article presents graphics that show the position of the repositories of Mexican institutions in the national and Latin American contexts with the purpose of inviting the readers to explore and make use of the technological resources to enrich teaching and research at our universities.

Translated by Adán Israel Vázquez Alba